“THE band has the keys to the warehouse and can release whatever we want, whenever we want,” says Pumpkin-in-chief Billy Corgan, of this move to re-release all of the band’s groundbreaking early works.

Remastered and put together in an imaginative and informative package, plenty of work has gone into the release to ensure that fans are getting real value for money. There is a plethora of unreleased or alternative versions of songs and accompanying DVDs. It’s not all great, it must be said, but as a comprehensive library of all things Pumpkin it makes for interesting listening.

Corgan’s liner notes and his track-by-track breakdown, go some way to understanding just where he was at the time of writing.

More albums are set to be re-released over the next two years and early this year the band will also head back into the studio to record some new music.